Well , the May Trees are looking beautiful now in the hedgerows of Cornwall and I'm itching to start planting all my flower and vegetable seedlings .
I only have the Pumpkin bed left to prepare . Been a bit tired , but maybe I will do it tomorrow .
I have been taking the seedlings , beans , butternuts , sweetcorn , nicotiana out of the greenhouse and bringing them all back in again at the end of the day . I want to make sure they are properly hardened off .
We had weather warnings of thundery showers , there were a few rumbles of thunder during the night here and my brother sent me pictures of the sudden hail storm they had this afternoon in Buckinghamshire . Great big seedling smashing , leaf shredding hail stones ! ⛈️⚡....and flooding !
We didn't get much rain here . My water butt is only a third full . I was really hoping it was going to be full to the brim . I am very grateful that I now have two water butts fixed up on the greenhouse .
The Tomatoes and Cucumbers are very thirsty plants .
Anyway , so I think I'm going to hold back on planting out for a few more days .
Beans ,Sweetcorn ,Pelargoniums , Nicotiana .
Meanwhile , I am giving some attention to my house plants .
Looks so much better in it's new slightly larger pot and fresh compost and a drink .
And this poor Cycad 🤩 which I snapped up in a local supermarket ! I just fell in love with it , you know how it is !
But ..sigh ...the pot is so small and some of the leaves are turning yellow . I suspect the plants were watered with tap water . They really don't like the chlorine in tap water .
Anyway ...... ✨✨✨
I hope I can turn it around .Just look at those crushed roots !
This one was perfect .
And a nice drink of water from the water butt . They both look so much better already !
The Cycad is living in the greenhouse ...for the time being ..... hmm ....
The Calathea on a windowsill in the cottage . One with indirect light . It really is a gorgeous plant .
More tomorrow !
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We are growing short of water here, all the recent rain passed us by, I have started saving water from the kitchen to help keep one water but topped up. I have always wondered if we should wait until the 1st of June or the may blossom on the rhyme, my mum always said it, but I can't remember when she planted.
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